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Ouch! Not to be confused with .uk.co which is still up and running. .< 11:05:56 AM  >Students prepare to evoke spirit of the 60s. Education: Students plan lecture boycotts and teach-ins at universities across the country if war breaks out. [Guardian Unlimited] .< 11:02:06 AM >Pepper spray sends clubbers scrambling for exits, 21 dead At least 21 people died on Monday morning after hundreds of panicked people rushed to the exits of a crowded nightclub in Chicago. [CBC News] .< 8:51:11 AM > BBC quotes British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw saying it would be "very difficult indeed" to "take military action in order to disarm Saddam Hussein's regime if the British public opposed attacking the country." [Scripting News].< 8:43:00 AM >fuck, the word A myriad of ways to use 'the f word'. Make sure you have the sound turned on. .< 2:01:47 AM >Oil, imperialism and "hypocrisy". Among the hundreds of thousands protesting in London, most saw Bush and Blair as a bigger threat than dictator Saddam Hussein. [Salon.com] .< 2:00:21 AM >Liberal Radio Is Planned by Rich Group of Democrats. Democratic donors plan to start a liberal radio network to counterbalance the tenor of conservative radio programs. [New York Times: Arts] .< 1:59:23 AM >Smithsonian Folkways Dusts Off Titles With New Technology. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings is using recordable CD's, or CD-R's, to ensure that each release in its extensive catalog is always available. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:57:05 AM >Microsoft Loosens Apple's Hold on Schools. Apple, formerly the undisputed leader in sales of computers to schools, has lost ground to lower-priced PC's that run Microsoft Windows. [New York Times: Technology] .< 1:55:17 AM >Flood forces evacuation of Nfld. town 
Rising water from ice-jammed rivers forced about 1,200 people to flee their homes in a Newfoundland town, where officials have declared a state of emergency. [CBC News] .< 1:54:12 AM >The Observer | International | US to punish German 'treachery' 'The plan - discussed by Pentagon officials and military chiefs last week on the orders of Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld - is designed 'to harm' the German economy to make an example of the country for what US hawks see as Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's 'treachery'.
The hawks believe that making an example of Germany will force other countries heavily dependent on US trade to think twice about standing up to America in future.' The West couldn't really intervene to stop the Iraqi nationalization, however, because Iraq invited in the Soviets to develop its oil fields and buy its oil.
The Iraqi deal with the Soviets ? regarded as the ultimate treachery by the oil companies, Washington and London ? was negotiated by the Number 2 man in the new Baathist regime that had seized power in Iraq. His name was Saddam Hussein.' |
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